那是前年腊月,我带儿子回老家过年,路过开发区路段时,儿子用手扳过我的脸,指着车窗外一个阔大的广告牌,说妈妈你看,那是大连什么国际学校?我凝神之后,告诉儿子,大连枫叶国际学校。我说,那个“葉”字是枫叶的叶字的老写法。儿子不懂中国文字的由来,皱着眉头看了好长时间,疑惑地问,叶字怎么能这么写?我于是牵强附会地跟儿子说,叶子是世界上任何草木都要长的东西,所以古人发明它时,就选用了世界的“世”字在中间,上边顶着草,下边坐着木。就像一座被浓雾裹着的峻岭,你只知它的巍峨却无法看清它 That was the twelfth lunar month ago, when I took my son back home for the Chinese New Year and passed the section of the development zone, my son wrenched my face with a hand and pointed at a large billboard outside the window saying that my mom, what is that international school in Dalian? After concentration, told his son, Dalian Maple Leaf International School. I said that the “leaf” is the old wording of the leaves of Maple Leaf. My son did not understand the origin of Chinese characters, frowning looked for a long time, asked puzzled, how can I write words? I was forced to tell her son, the leaves of any plant in the world to be long things, so When the ancients invented it, they chose the word “世” in the world, with the grass on top and the wood below. Like a dense fog wrapped in the mountains, you only know it’s towering but can not see it